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Midsummer is coming soon on July 27th, 2019.. and Yes, we will burn the Wicker Man again this year! An informal celebration for our community.. that you can participate in! Please come help build him and make the magic happen! Building starts around 4 pm. Bring potluck items to share and maybe a drum or […]

Happy New Year ! The light returns and Candlemas is coming.. Around February 2nd each year, also known as Groundhog’s Day, we celebrate the festival of Imbolc, or Candlemas at the Center. It’s our tradition to make a bed for St. Brigid according to the Irish tradition and stay up all night telling stories and […]

How do we build a wicker man every year at Midsummer? With the help of community on the day of the event! There’s a frame to be built, usually topped with a grinning head made of wood. Straw is bound around the frame, then packed in the straw an offering of the fruits of first harvest […]

Center for Symbolic Studies at the Stone Mountain Farm is happy to present Faun Fables on July 9th on our beautiful festival stage in the woods!. This will be an early, kid friendly show. If you are traveling from afar and are interested in camping, email to programs at symbolicstudies.org. We have a […]

The Center for Symbolic Studies is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) healing and performing arts center exploring the psyche through the window of myth. Our mission is to provide a theater of opportunities for conscious myth-making, leading to personal growth and communal awareness. We see this as essential to a creative participation in the richness and variety of human cultures and in our extended ecological family.

"Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, the arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep all boil up from the basic magic ring of myth."— Joseph Campbell

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